Fairweather

Pope and AlpineK: I doubt your perception of life up there will jibe with reality. But, anyhow..... See ya! (Quitting is sooo un-American!)

So do you support the production and consumption of GM foods? If not, as I suspect, please explain. Mistakes are sure to be made along the way but, as with GM farming, the benefits outweigh the risks IMHO.

I'm sorry, but the allergic kid needs to find another school to attend. How many accommodations shall the many make for the one? This aint' ADA, this is sheer lunacy. Sounds like it's time for new school board elections!

Paul Hamm should quietly take his gold medal over to his South Korean competitor's quarters and present it to him in exchange for the bronze. Paul Hamm did not win. His gold medal will always be stamped with an asterisk and is now only worth it's spot-price. He should do the honorable thing and present it to its rightful owner.

So who would be your first, next choice for president? McCain? Nader? Brown? Liebermann? Dean? Surely Kerry isn't your first choice? I will be honest and state that there are probably several Republicans I would prefer to Bush.....But they aint' running! BTW, Cj, Governors typically don't write legislation.

It's not a mosque anymore. It's fucking armory. Bush is starting to look a lot more like LBJ!

Pope, Why don't you just be honest with yourself and say, "John Kerry will probably be a miserable, indecisive, waffling excuse for a leader who has no real plan other than his own self-gratification, passed no legislation of note during his 20 year senate tenure, and once sold out his fellow soldiers still fighting in Vietnam before a senate committee..... and the only reason I'm still voting for him is that I hate George W Bush"?

This is just in the September primaries to prevent "crossover voting"... where voters sometimes cast a ballot for a weaker candidate from the opposite party in the hopes that their true candidate will have an easier contest in the general election. This new process was pushed by both parties, and imposed by a federal court. One is still free to vote for the candidate, regardless of party, in the November general election. The only real problem with this new system is that the taxpayers foot the bill, whereas it seems to me that the parties themselves should.

This (inaccurate)lesson about brain function brought to you by....."Stonehead".

Wow! You're pretty sharp AK. I guess I just missed your point...or you missed mine. Dole spent several months in a hospital recovering from his wounds suffered at Anzio. You can take it from there.....

Great book! I'm reading it right now. I discovered the origin of the word "amok", and that Darwin had some of his ideas handed to him on a silver platter.

Holy shit! Bob Dole has joined the debate! I've never know this guy to be a partisan extreme.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5771731/

Future engineers? May God help us all!

...Then, I'm gunna take some big ol' Polar Bears down to South Georgia Island to clean up those messy bird-wannabies! (The ones I didn't capture and transplant to the arctic, that is!) They can also feed on the occasional Brit or Aussie capsized yachtsman that comes along. Hehe. This will be a staging area for my final Polar Bear assault on the Antarctic mainland a few years from now. Those cute little Harp Seals back up north (and the bleeding heart humans who love them) will be thankin' me big time too! ...and who says that the south pole isn't really the top of the world!?

That's a classic, man!

Some forms of environmentalism have left the realm of science and are now religion. What's your religion, Whirl?

Just a thought: If a race of technologically superior, space-faring aliens arrived here on earth would they have a right to trade with us their technical know-how for, say....certain mining rights? Would their missionaries be right to set up churches and preach their (what would seem) obviously superior beliefs ? Would our citizens be free to worship therein? Would certain elements of the human race be justified in their efforts toward armed resistance? Would our way of life change forever? The answer to all these questions is yes.

My science project: I'm going to take a ship to Antarctica, fill its hold with mating pairs of Penguins, then sail off north to Greenland, Baffin, Norway, Russian Arctic.... I just wanna see what happens after a few years! Now that would be a real Penguin conspiracy.

Substitute Christianity with [/i]western liberalism[/i]. Does the outcome of your equation change? By your twisted logic we should abolish all social programs and medical assistance in Africa and right here in our own country...after all, those people we are helping might just be encouraged to reproduce at a higher rate! Better to let the present generation die off than propagate the suffering of future generations?? WTF are you saying? Blame the Christians! Blame the Jews! It is a common theme among modern liberals and communists, and your prose sounds alarmingly familiar.

True, but it is Kerry who has made his military service a huge part of his campaign. He offered it up as a leadership qualifier. He had to know it would be questioned. Especially when you look at his behavior when he returned home.

Story is dated July 23, so the swift boat balance is missing. Reuters is the polar opposite of FOX. Left-biased. This story just demonstrates that the Kerry camp began this whole debate by sending their attack apparatus to question Bush's guard service long before his own service was questioned. How do you disprove a negative? There are actual witnesses in the swift boat debate. Decorated veterans, no less! And the Kerry camp is the team that continues to "clarify" and backpedal ie Christmas in Cambodia, etc! How is it that Bush is somehow connected to this group? Michael Moore was given the royal treatment at the Democratic National Convention as I recall....but that's not an issue, I guess? Has Kerry disavowed Farenheit 9/11? No! He invited the guy to the party! And George Soros giving 15 million in both soft and hard $$$ is okay? Is he even an American citizen?...and is that legal re $$$ donations? What's ironic here is that the more Kerry squirms, the more free air-time these ads get on the national media. The guy's so stupid, he's diggin' his own hole! All he has to do is STFU. On another note; the title that johndavidjr chose for this thread is "swift boat swine". I would remind him that the members of this organization are likely sincere, and are all combat veterans themselves. Many are more decorated than Kerry himself. To refer to them as swine just provides us with a clear example of the love we so often see flowing from the left.

When I want real debate, I just talk to CrazyJZ.

Oh please, Will. The Kerry website? Those are only documents he has chosen to display. Again; why won't he release his complete military service records to the public? Why is the Kerry Campaign now filing a complaint with the FEC about the Swift Boat Ads? What a fucking crybaby! Lawsuit time!....That's what the Dem's do best! After the shit that Bush has put up with silently ala Michael Moore, dozens of outrageous books, moveon.org Nazi ads, slander about his guard service...and not like John Kerry. Once again we see how liberals respond to free speech they don't like....

Why won't Kerry release his military service records?

Here's a picture I took on a one day climb a couple years ago... looking down the standard route from the summit at my brother. Other than the first couple of moves starting up from the ledge, which are very exposed, it is mostly 3rd/4th. If you down climb to a platform just below the top, I think one rope will work for the rappel, but we used two so I can't say for sure.